t may not yet live up the other animation applications like Maya or 3D Studio Max

Perhaps he is meant for the Toon shader that Autodesk products have, still Blender has some good competence there only that everything is made with Nodes, rater difficult for those like me used to 2.49 =(, i'm trying to do my best for show off Synfig Studio and the results are quite positive hopefully, people will be looking forward the project with a little more projects finished jaja (and time =P)